Posted on 22 September 2011. Tags: Jose Webster, lesly arzu, parkchester funeral home, shooting
Jose Webster had just turned 16. He didn’t have a rap sheet and affiliated with gangs and, by all accounts, was a smart kid. But last Thursday, he’d barely started walking his girlfriend home when 15 bullets killed him, New York Daily News. His wake will be held on on Sept. 22 at the Parkchester Funeral Home. […]
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Posted on 22 September 2011. Tags: bronx county, manhattan, Marble Hill, new york county, The Bronx
Marble Hill is a complicated place. By land mass, it sits in the Bronx. But by legislation, it’s actually part of Manhattan. City Hall news provides a history lesson about why the anomaly exists. In 1895, city engineers wanted to connect the Hudson and East rivers to aid shipping efficacy, so they dug a canal […]
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Posted on 22 September 2011. Tags: american community survey, Census, Poverty
According to new numbers from the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey, New Yorkers were hit particularly hard by the most recent recession, reports the New York Times in an analysis of the data. Bronx County remained the poorest urban county in the nation. Nearly three in five Hispanic single mothers in the Bronx […]
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Posted on 21 September 2011. Tags: Belmont, police, shootout, St. Barnabas Hospital
Police got involved in a shooting a East 187th Street and Prospect Avenue just after midnight Wednesday, WABC news. Two groups of men got into a shootout with each other before officers reportedly also opened fire, according to WABC. One person was wounded in the leg and fled. A man showed up at St. Barnabas […]
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Posted on 21 September 2011. Tags: cops, corruption, grand jury, investigation, larceny, perjury
Seventeen Bronx cops, investigated for everything from perjury to larceny to records tampering, are waiting for a decision from a grand jury Wednesday, New York Daily News. It’s the culmination of two years of probing, gathering evidence on more than 500 cops, including wiretaps, the Daily News reports. Precincts mostly involved include the 40th, 41st, […]
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Posted on 21 September 2011. Tags: agriculture committee, diabetes, farm day, Food, fruit, health department, Hunts Point, infrastructure, kirsten gillibrand, obesity, vegetable
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) focused on the Bronx’s “food deserts” during Tuesday’s annual Farm Day, calling for more fresh fruits and vegetables in impoverished areas, New York Daily News. Gillibrand sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee and is pushing for “food hub infrastructure” funding initiatives into the 2012 Farm Bill. The Daily News reports that such […]
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Posted on 20 September 2011. Tags: farm, fordham university, law, michael zimmerman, produce
Farm to Fordham, a farm-share program at Fordham University for the last year and a half, ended last week after a battle with security personnel at the school, New York Times. The program has been struggling since April when security refused to open gates for vegetable delivery, the Times reports. The program’s founder, Michael Zimmerman, a […]
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Posted on 20 September 2011. Tags: bronx parking, economic development, hotel, marlene cintron, parking garage, ruben diaz jr, Yankee Stadium
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced a new plan to transform an underused parking garage near Yankee Stadium into a hotel. The project will be in conjuction with the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp, the New York Daily News reports. The site renovation, at E 153rd Street and River Avenue, will not only create […]
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